20-year-old Emma Busse has been one of the luckiest to sing her way up to the Top 30 on Season 21 of American Idol. A 2022 diploma in Musical Theatre graduate from the American Music and Dramatic Academy, Emma started her journey on the Idol singing Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”. In this writing though, we shall tell you about her parents who very early on realized their daughter’s love for the arts and made her go through just the amount of training and experience she had to have to be where she is today.
American Idol: Who Are Emma Busse’s Parents?
Before her Hawaii Week performance on Idol, Emma Busse shared this story about her and her family visiting Aulani when she was super young. She remembered performing on the Aulani stage and feeling “so surreal”. Had she not experienced that, Emma Busse said she would not be in this position today, talking all about to the American Idol‘s cameras.
So, clearly, her parents Rina and Richard Busse have been immensely supportive of her pursuing a career as she does. Keep reading to discover more about her parents.
Meet Rina Busse, Emma Busse’s Mother
From the American Idol stage, Emma Busse shared with everyone that her mother is a classically trained singer and stage performer. At that point, the matriarch had been teaching musical theatre in Burnaby city, in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada.
Speaking of Rina’s family background, she is the daughter of the late Maria Assunta (Susan)/AKA Maria Renzullo who passed on 27 May 2022. Her husband/Rina’s dad Francesco was still surviving at that point.
Rina in her family also has a brother named Carmine and a sister named Ingrid. The former is married to Adele and they have two kids Francesco and Stefano. Ingrid, on the other hand, is married to Carlo with Gianluca, Isabella, Samantha, and Cody.
Rina’s mom was born in Sarno, Provincia di Salerno in Italy. Later, as a young teen, she immigrated to Canada. They say she was always determined to make a better life for her family. So, in her obituary, it’s been written that with her husband Francesco, she worked tirelessly first at Nelson Cleaners, then as owner of Bianca Maria Italian Delicatessen for more than 33 years. Even today, her children believe her to be a force of nature, a champion of the underdog, and a successful businesswoman who gave back selflessly to her church and the community around her.
At last, let us also tell you that before getting married and adopting her husband’s last name went around as Rina Renzullo.
Meet Richard Busse, Emma Busse’s Father
Emma Busse’s father Richard Busse is the son of the late Concetta (Rina) Maria Busse and Lee Busse.
Richard’s dad passed away on 17 December 2022 and before that his mother in January 2017. The folks were married for good 61 years.
Richard grew up with them and his siblings: Laura-Lee Ingham (married to Ted) and Teresa Clarke (married to Brad).
He is professionally a dentist as he graduated from an accredited dental school before he could boast his DDS (Doctor of Dental Surgery). For decades since, he has been practicing as a family dentist around Vancouver, British Columbia Area.
Related FAQs
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Are Emma Busse’s Parents Still Married?
Yes. Emma Busse’s parents were still married and together as of April 2023.
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Where Do Emma Busse’s Parents Reside?
Until the time of this writing, Emma Busse’s parents had been residing in Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada.
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How Many Children Do Emma Busse’s Parents Have?
Emma Busse is not the only child of her parents. There are a bunch of others. And they are Emma’s sisters Sofia, Olivia, and Breanna, and a brother named Sebastian.
While we don’t yet know about the others, Emma is the one we saw performing a showy version of “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” during her American Idol audition. Judges tasked her again to do the “Happy Birthday” exercise without the vibrato and of course they then also invited her to the Hollywood Week round of competition.
When the theater performer auditioned in Las Vegas, judges loved her but not before making her realize that they would want her to unlearn some of her theater habits in order to thrive in the competition.
Moving on to the game, Emma focused to work on her confidence in the first part of Hollywood Week. She sang “My Mind” by YEBBA. For her final solo performance, she picked “Chasing Pavements” by Adele. And so she was booked as the Top 26 finalist. Then, in the Top 26 (Hawaii Round), she sang none other than the fan-favorite “Lay Me Down” by Sam Smith.
American Idol started allowing Canadians like Emma to compete ever since its 18th season. And so Lauren Spencer-Smith became the first from the country to make it to the Top 20 of Idol but she could not make it past the first viewers-voted round. As for Emma, she gets to be called the fifth Canadian contestant to become a Top 24 semifinalist, after of course Lauren and the others: Nicolina, Cameron Whitcomb, and Tyson Venegas.
